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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250519T160000
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SUMMARY:Phonetics Seminar - John McGahay
DESCRIPTION:John McGahay \n“Modeling Vowel System Typology Using Iterated Confusion Minimization”
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonetics-seminar-john-mcgahay/
LOCATION:Campbell Hall 2122A
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250516T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250516T140000
DTSTAMP:20240815T093721Z
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Matt Wagers
DESCRIPTION:Setting healthy (mnemonic) boundaries\nSome 20 years ago\, Lewis & Vasishth (2005) applied the ACT-R modeling framework to language processing by creating an English parser fragment embedded in an associative memory. McElree (2000) and McElree\, Foraker & Dyer (2003) informed this development by providing earlier arguments in favor of such a content-addressable memory. This proved to be hugely influential because it offered a general theory of dependency resolution which could be made precise by reference to any particular theory of linguistic features. Both strands of thought reoriented thinking in the field away from models of working memory that required serial search procedures and\, generally\, the discovery of widespread interference effects has vindicated that shift.Much recent research has made progress in delineating what the representations are (Yadav et al. 2023\, Keshev et al. 2025) and how they can be learned in an unsupervised manner (Ryu & Lewis\, 2021). Relatively unexplored is how to characterize the information that can be attended to simultaneously\, sometimes called the “focus of attention” (Oberauer & Hein\, 2012). This is an important commitment of models like ACT-R and provides an attractive point of articulation to theories of locality or linguistic domains. In this talk\, I will survey what we know\, and don’t know\, about the focus of attention in language processing (Wagers & McElree\, 2013\, 2022) and relate it to recent thinking about the dynamics of context encoding (Healey\, Long & Kahana\, 2019; Balachandran\, Wagers & Rich\, 2025). \nLocation: Royce Hall 362
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-matt-wagers/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250514T120000
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SUMMARY:Syn/Sem Talk – Anand Abraham
DESCRIPTION:“Sluicing as Discourse Anaphora” \nSluicing is a phenomenon where a *wh*-phrase is used to stand for the meaning of a whole question. Sluicing is traditionally analyzed as a variety of ellipsis (Chung et al. 1995\, Merchant 2001)\, but significant mismatches are possible between the antecedent of a sluice and the structure that is posited in the ellipsis site. Here I take a different route and argue that sluicing is not ellipsis but discourse anaphora. What a sluice does is ask a question about the identity of a discourse referent. This approach avoids issues of specifying an identity condition\, and I argue that it fits the semantic facts better too.
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syn-sem-talk-anand-abraham/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250512T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250512T180000
DTSTAMP:20250407T084333Z
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SUMMARY:Phonetics Seminar
DESCRIPTION:ASA poster presentation practice \n\nCoralie Cram (representing A. Boulom\, N. Cuymon\, J. McGahay\, Z. Metzler\, E. Montilla\, V. Shetty\, J-L Siah\, & M. Cychosz)\n\n–  “A systematic review and meta-analysis of the development of coarticulation in child speech” \n\nJahnavi Narkar & Max Meszaros\n\n– “A perceptual explanation for the adaptation of aspirated stops in Indic languages” 
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonetics-seminar-4/
LOCATION:Campbell Hall 2122A
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250509T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250509T110000
DTSTAMP:20250429T082312Z
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SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
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URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-115/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250507T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250507T133000
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SUMMARY:Syn/Sem Talk – Adrian Brasoveanu
DESCRIPTION:This week’s Syn/Sem features a practice SALT talk by Adrian Brasoveanu (UCSC). \nCounterfactual Interpretation as Search for Coherence (In a Learned Model of the World) \n“Once there was a little boy who lived in a hot country. One day his mother told him to take some cake to his grandmother. She warned him to hold it carefully so it wouldn’t break into crumbs. The little boy put the cake in a leaf under his arm and carried it to his grandmother’s. When he got there\, the cake had crumbled into tiny pieces. His grandmother told him he was a silly boy.” (Stein & Glenn\, 1975) Comprehending this short story as a coherent whole requires us to quickly and seamlessly access our background world knowledge to enrich what is literally said with a range of inferences. For example\, the grandmother calls the boy silly because he should have known (as we all do) that cakes are brittle and they crumble when squeezed under one’s arm. Counterfactually\, **had he carried it on top of his head\, the cake wouldn’t have crumbled.** I propose that\, just as discourse comprehension leverages our world knowledge to make inferences and establish narrative coherence as we construct a mental model of the story\, the work of constructing a hypothetical situation that both satisfies the counter-to-fact antecedent and is otherwise as similar as possible to the actual situation involves a similar search for temporal and causal coherence. I thus follow Thomason\, Ippolito\, Khoo among many others in assuming that we need a historically structured interpretation for counterfactuals going beyond the Stalnaker / Lewis pure similarity account. I go further and show how we can leverage the model of discourse comprehension in Frank et al (2003) to _construct_ the similarity / accessibility relation that is a theoretical primitive in all these accounts (and relegated to the _deus ex machina_ of pragmatics) out of a training sample of 250 temporally ordered situations in a microworld involving two characters Bob and Jilly playing various games. From this specific ‘movie’ of 250 ‘frames’\, we learn a first-order Markov model of how events typically unfold in the microworld. The model (although clearly an oversimplification) is sufficient to both make gradient predictions about counterfactual interpretation and predict processing difficulty profiles for counterfactuals that depend on the size of the gap between the actual situation and the counter-to-fact antecedent\, and therefore on the amount of inference work needed to bridge this gap and establish coherence.
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syn-sem-talk-adrian-brasoveanu/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250505T160000
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SUMMARY:Phonetics Seminar - Zion Mengesha
DESCRIPTION:Zion Mengesha (Dept. of Anthropology)
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonetics-seminar-zion-mengesha/
LOCATION:Campbell Hall 2122A
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250502T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250502T140000
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Rachel Walker
DESCRIPTION:Position-sensitive transparency in vowel harmony: The role of prosodic gestures and locality \nA recent crosslinguistic study of positional privilege in vowel harmony observed that vowels in a stressed syllable may asymmetrically block harmony\, but they are never singled out to be transparent (Kaplan & Walker 2024). This typological gap is not predicted under traditional theoretical assumptions in Optimality Theory. If transparent vowels are skipped by harmony\, then a pattern is predicted in which harmony operates among unstressed vowels but skips stressed vowels to preserve content in the stressed syllable. This unwanted pattern is derived when a positional faithfulness constraint designated for the stressed syllable (Beckman 1999) and a harmony imperative constraint are enforced at the cost of the constraint that penalizes vowels that are skipped by harmony: ˈσ-Faithfulness >> Harmony Imperative >> *Skip. \nThis talk employs the representations of gestural phonology (Browman & Goldstein 1986\, 1995) to address this unwanted prediction\, centering on two points. First\, harmony does not actually skip vowels\, so transparent vowels have overlapping (co-active) opposing gestures. “Transparency” results when the goal state of the harmonizing gesture is not achieved due to blending with a co-active opposing gesture (Gafos & Benus 2006\, Smith 2018). Second\, stressed vowels resist transparency because they are a locus of hyperarticulation due to a prosodic µ-gesture associated with stress (Saltzman et al. 2008\, Katsika & Tsai 2021)\, a context that disfavors opposing gestures. \nAn analysis is developed in Optimality Theory. The proposal is illustrated in application to vowel laxing/RTR harmony in the Eastern Andalusian Spanish variety of Granada (Jiménez & Lloret 2007\, 2020\, Lloret & Jiménez 2009)\, in which unstressed vowels may be transparent but stressed vowels consistently harmonize. In addition to empirically demonstrating issues surrounding positional asymmetries in vowel harmony\, three patterns of variation in the harmony pattern of Eastern Andalusian Spanish are examined and analyzed in the gestural account. \nThis study has implications for phonological representations\, locality\, and position-sensitive constraints. Building on previous gestural approaches to harmony\, it provides a new argument for understanding spreading in harmony as a local operation\, and it offers support for gestural representations in phonology through examining interactions of vocal tract constriction gestures and prosodic gestures. In terms of the treatment of privileged positions\, it argues that stress-sensitive transparency and blocking be understood as an effect of positional markedness rather than positional faithfulness\, contributing a new argument to work identifying disadvantages of positional faithfulness in handling various aspects of positional privilege (e.g. Hayes 2004\, Prince & Tesar 2004\, Jesney 2009). \nLocation: Royce Hall 362
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-rachel-walker/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250430T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250430T133000
DTSTAMP:20250428T104517Z
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SUMMARY:Syn/Sem Talk - Ramiro Caso
DESCRIPTION:A talk by Ramiro Caso\, a philosopher/linguist visiting us from Buenos Aires. \nTowards a dynamic account of deontic modals \nI investigate the semantic and pragmatic behavior of deontic modals from a dynamic perspective. Pragmatically\, deontic modals exhibit complex anchoring patterns that depend both on whose information state and whose preference ordering are taken as relevant\, giving rise to distinct patterns of rejection and disagreement. Moreover\, the assertion of a bare deontic modal sentence carries a performative dimension: upon acceptance\, a new obligation or practical commitment is attributed to the relevant deliberative agent. In the domain of semantics\, reasoning involving defeasible obligations\, contrary-to-duty obligations\, and obligations under epistemic uncertainty\, display distinctive non-classical traits\, calling for a non-monotonic treatment of the entailment relation. I explore the extent to which these phenomena can be accounted for by modeling deontic modals as tests on information states.
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syn-sem-talk-ramiro-caso/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250428T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250428T180000
DTSTAMP:20250407T083629Z
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SUMMARY:Phonetics Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Review of ASA abstracts
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonetics-seminar-3/
LOCATION:Campbell Hall 2122A
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250425T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250425T140000
DTSTAMP:20240815T093518Z
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Tanya Bondarenko
DESCRIPTION:Lessons about clausal embedding from long-distance wh-dependencies  \nAbstract: In this talk I argue with the data from Georgian that syntax and semantics of long-distance wh-dependencies provide support for the view that many embedded clauses are adjuncts (syntactically) and modifiers (semantically) rather than arguments of verbs they combine with (Elliott 2017\, Bochnak & Hanink 2021\, Bondarenko 2022\, a.o.). Georgian is a language that has wh-movement within matrix clauses (Borise 2023)\, but lacks wh-movement out of embedded CPs (Harris 1981). I examine in detail both restrictions on wh-movement\, and alternative strategies of building long-distance wh-dependencies\, and argue that explanations for both need the assumption that embedded clauses at hand are not true arguments of the verb. \nFirst\, I argue that restrictions on wh-movement in Georgian are an instance of the Williams Cycle effect (Williams\, 2003\, 2011; Meadows 2023\, Poole 2023\, Egressy 2024\, a.o.): unlike in languages like English\, wh-movement in Georgian targets a syntactic projection lower than CP\, and this is why it cannot cross a CP boundary. I show that this constraint is part of a broader seize-locality generalization\, and propose that Meadows’ (2023) approach to Williams Cycle is best suited to account for it. An implication of this is that (most) embedded clauses have to be adjuncts: a crucial part of the proposal is that clausal embedding involves featurally free instances of external Merge. \nSecond\, I show that Georgian has three alternative strategies of building long-distance wh-dependencies (wh-scope marking\, prolepsis with a gap\, prolepsis with wh-doubling)\, and none of them involve cross-clausal movement (cf. Dayal 1994\, 2000\, a.o.). I make a proposal of how to build the meanings of these long-distance questions compositionally from clauses with regular wh-syntax. A crucial assumption of this proposal is that embedded clauses restrict the propositional content of the matrix eventuality\, implying that embedded clauses under consideration are modifiers of the verb. \n  \nLocation: Royce Hall 362
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-tanya-bondarenko/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250421T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250421T180000
DTSTAMP:20250407T083516Z
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SUMMARY:Phonetics Seminar - Megha Sundara
DESCRIPTION:Megha Sundara \n“How do infants learn phonotactics?”
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonetics-seminar-megha-sundara/
LOCATION:Campbell Hall 2122A
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250418T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250418T140000
DTSTAMP:20250408T104653Z
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Huilei Wang
DESCRIPTION:Asymmetries in (c)overt extraction from relative clauses and a linearization-based account\nQuantifiers usually give rise to scope ambiguity when two or more occur in the same clause: the surface scope is determined by the surface c-commanding relation between two quantificational phrases\, while the inverse scope arises from some scope-shifting mechanism which does not bring phonological effects. One of the widely assumed scope-shifting mechanisms is Quantifier Raising (May 1977)\, an optional application of a movement rule which reverses the surface c-commanding relation at LF but has no effect at PF (i.e. covert movement)\, but it also faces a challenge posed by the lack of a perfect parallelism between scope and overt extraction. In this talk\, I contribute to a better understanding of covert movement via investigating apparent asymmetries between (i) scope ambiguity and (ii) overt extraction across Mandarin RCs. I argue that QR from some Mandarin RCs to the edge of the containing DPs is possible\, while overt movement from Mandarin RCs into the matrix clause is not\, and develop an account for this claim\, based on a linearization principle from Fox and Pesetsky 2009 and insights from Sichel 2018 on exceptional extraction out of RCs cross-linguistically. I will also discuss the consequences of the adopted linearization principle on the nature of covert movement like QR and its distinction from overt ones. \nLocation: Royce Hall 362
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-huilei-wang/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250418T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250418T110000
DTSTAMP:20250210T104717Z
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SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
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URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-110/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250414T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250414T180000
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SUMMARY:Phonetics Seminar - Zenghui Liu
DESCRIPTION:Zenghui Liu \n“A cross-linguistic study on prosodic focus marking in Mon-Khmer languages”
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonetics-seminar-zenghui-liu/
LOCATION:Campbell Hall 2122A
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250411T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250411T140000
DTSTAMP:20240815T093542Z
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Ginny Dawson
DESCRIPTION:Rethinking classifier languages\n\nClassifier languages have long been of interest to formal semanticists. That such languages do not allow nouns to be modified directly by numerals have lead researchers to propose a significant degree of cross-linguistic variation between classifier and non-classifier languages in either noun meaning (e.g. Chierchia 1998) or numeral meaning (e.g. Krifka 1989\, Bale & Coon 2014). Classifier languages\, on this view\, show fundamental semantic differences from non-classifier languages. In this talk\, I challenge this notion by examining the behavior of nouns and numerals in Tiwa\, a Tibeto-Burman language of India. I argue that despite having the properties of a typical classifier language\, nouns and numerals in Tiwa can and should be analyzed as having the same sorts of meanings as nouns and numerals in non-classifier languages like English. I argue that the differences between languages like Tiwa and English are largely morphosyntactic\, and that this morphosyntactic variation is expected given standard assumptions about the syntax and semantics of nouns\, numerals\, and number marking. Most centrally\, I argue that (sortal) classifiers in Tiwa are overt realizations of a morpheme that creates a predicate out of a degree-denoting numeral; a function which is often assumed to be a type-shift in languages like English (Bylinina & Nouwen 2020). What seem like major differences between the two languages\, then\, does not reflect fundamental semantic variation in noun or numeral meaning\, but is exactly the sort of morphosyntactic variation we expect to see. I conclude by looking at the typological picture more broadly\, examining the ways languages are predicted to differ based on the dimensions of variation I identify. \nLocation: Royce Hall 362
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-ginny-dawson/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250407T160000
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DTSTAMP:20250407T082556Z
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SUMMARY:Phonetics Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Nominating colloquium speakers
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/phonetics-seminar/
LOCATION:Campbell Hall 2122A
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250319T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250319T140000
DTSTAMP:20250210T104717Z
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SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
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URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-113/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250317T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250317T140000
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SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
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URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-109/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250314T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250314T140000
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Florian Schwarz
DESCRIPTION:Testing weak and strong definites experimentally across languages \nSchwarz (2009) proposed a distinction between weak and strong definite articles\, reflected in Standard German in the presence or absence of contraction of the article with certain prepositions (e.g.\, vom vs. von dem). Semantically\, the analysis took the former to be a situationally restricted uniqueness article\, and the latter an anaphoric article bearing an index\, just like a pronoun. In subsequent work\, numerous authors have applied this distinction to analyze contrasts between definite forms in a wide range of languages. While this cross-linguistic evidence supports the availability of the ingredients of the distinction in natural language in general (with some analytical variations and adjustments\, and quite possibly further aspects in play in certain languages)\, the basic semantic contrast remains subtle and has generally not been captured systematically in experimental investigations. I present data from a simple picture selection task paradigm where the contrast in anaphoricity is pitched against another factor\, that of typicality\, which do provide quantitative support of the posited contrast. Next\, I extend this paradigm to English to turn to a question vexingly left open in this literature\, namely whether articles in languages that do not seem to make such a contrast and only use one form for definites throughout\, like English\, are ambiguous or map onto either weak or strong articles. The final part of the talk adds in data from various ongoing collaborations that investigate yet more languages to work towards a more systematic and quantitative comparison of different forms across languages. I close by considering challenges that lie ahead in integrating this data theoretically. \nLocation: Royce Hall\, Room 156
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-florian-schwarz/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 156
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250312T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250312T140000
DTSTAMP:20250219T152356Z
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Jack Duff
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium Talk – Jack Duff \nMar 12 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm \nLocation: La Kretz Hall 120
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-jack-duff/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250310T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250310T140000
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Kelsey Sasaki
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium Talk – Kelsey Sasaki \nMar 10 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm \nLocation: La Kretz Hall 120
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-kelsey-sasaki/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Uriel Cohen Priva
DESCRIPTION:Four short investigations of short duration.\n\nI will present four interconnected investigations regarding the effects of short duration in the context of phonetics\, phonology and sound change. I’ll start with the observation that durational shortening appears to be a crucial causal factor in at least three unrelated languages (Ennever\, Meakins\, and Round 2017; Katz and Pitzanti 2019; Cohen Priva and Gleason 2020). I will argue that this causal route saves us from seemingly counter-optimization in information-driven consonant lenition (e.g. Cohen Priva 2017). Turning our attention to vowels\, I will demonstrate that contrast-elimination pressures on vowels would not result in a schwa\, but rather in a high central vowel\, and that the abundance of schwa vowels cross-linguistically would seem to follow from the loss of a perceived target alongside the maintenance of the need for a vowel (Cohen Priva and Strand 2023). Finally\, I will delve into individual differences in the degree to which speakers yield to phonetic pressures\, which turns out to be good for explaining the absence of unwarranted sound change (Cohen Priva and Gafter 2024).
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-uriel-cohen-priva/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 156
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250307T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250307T110000
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SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
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URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-111/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250305T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250305T140000
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Dave Cayado
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium Talk – Dave Cayado \nMar 5 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm \nLocation: La Kretz Hall 120
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-dave-cayado/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250228T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250228T130000
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Wesley Orth
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium Talk – Wesley Orth \nFeb 28 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm \nLocation: Royce Hall 156 \n 
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-wesley-orth/
LOCATION:Royce Hall 156
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250221T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250221T140000
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Nicole Holliday - Sociolinguistic Competence Versus Artificial "Intelligence": Variation in the Face of Ubiquitous Large Language Models
DESCRIPTION:Linguists take it as axiomatic that speakers are experts on their languages\, both in grammar and usage. However\, as Large Language Models (LLM) trained on text and speech become ubiquitous in domains from daily tasks to education and employment\, human expertise about language is increasingly devalued. This talk will present the results of three studies that focus on how LLMs judge and purport to “fix” the speech of human talkers\, also known as Social Feedback Speech Technologies (SFSTs). The first study shows how the Amazon Halo\, a wearable device that claims to evaluate “tone of voice” does not function as advertised\, and in fact systematically negatively evaluates the speech of Black talkers.  Results of the second study\, which focuses on Read.AI and the Zoom Revenue Accelerator in videoconferencing contexts\, describe how SFSTs reinforce narrow “standard” language ideologies and fail to provide actionable\, realistic feedback to users. These systems also provide systematically worse evaluations for black speakers\, as well as those who are neurodivergent. Finally\, the third study analyzes the outputs of “accent translation” programs marketed by companies such as Sanas and Krisp\, showing that such programs do not functionally “translate” accents but rather transform speech to an imagined “American” variety that is phonetically unnatural. Taken together\, the studies show that “AI”-based programs that purport to evaluate human speech do so without consideration of linguistic principles or acknowledgement of speakers’ sociolinguistic competencies. Such systems also act without transparency for both designers and users by design\, reproducing social stereotypes inherent to their training data. As a result\, they advise humans to produce unnatural speech\, and they punish speakers who do not conform to the narrow targets established by an LLM’s training data. As such technologies are already being used to make employment decisions\, provide speech therapy\, and even draft police reports\, the fact that these systems systematically misevaluate speech represents a significant threat to all human speakers\, most especially those from marginalized groups.  \nLocation: Royce Hall 156
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-nicole-holliday/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250221T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250221T110000
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SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
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URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-108/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250131T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250131T120000
DTSTAMP:20250107T152728Z
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SUMMARY:Faculty Meeting
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URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/faculty-meeting-107/
LOCATION:2122 Campbell Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250110T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250110T130000
DTSTAMP:20250106T131415Z
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Talk - Abeer Abbas
DESCRIPTION:Morphological Structure in the Arabic Mental Lexicon: Productivity and Priming Effects in Nominal and Verbal Patterns. \nAbstract Semitic languages\, including Arabic\, are characterized by two types of discontinuous morphemes: roots and word patterns. However\, the role of these morphemes in lexical access and representation remains debated. Roots have been found to exhibit robust priming effects across both nominal and verbal patterns. In contrast\, word patterns have shown mixed results\, with verbal patterns consistently demonstrating stronger priming effects than nominal patterns. While previous research\, such as Deutsch et al. (1998)\, suggested that productivity might explain these differences\, no study has directly investigated the role of productivity in morphological priming by Arabic word patterns. This dissertation addresses this gap by examining whether documented differences between priming between nominal and verbal word patterns are due to differences in productivity and whether morphological priming in word patterns can be distinguished from the effects of overlap in semantics and phonology. A total of 583 native Arabic speakers participated in five experiments\, including cross-modal priming and masked visual priming tasks. Stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs) of 32 ms\, 42 ms\, 48 ms\, and 65 ms were varied to investigate the time course of lexical access in word patterns. Stimuli included high- and low-productivity nouns and verbs\, compared with phonological\, semantic\, and unrelated controls.  The results showed that productivity plays a critical role in explaining the differential priming effects of nominal and verbal patterns. High-productivity word patterns\, both nominal and verbal\, exhibited robust priming effects\, while low-productivity patterns did not\, offering new insights into the interaction between productivity and morphological decomposition in Arabic. These findings support the dual-route model of morphological processing\, highlighting that high-productivity patterns are accessed via decomposition\, while low-productivity patterns rely on whole-word storage. Additionally\, the findings showed that word pattern priming effects were found only at longer SOAs (42 ms\, 48 ms\, and 65 ms) but not at 32 ms\, emphasizing that word patterns activate morphemic representations after roots. Furthermore\, high-productivity patterns were distinguished from form and meaning overlap\, providing clear evidence for their independent role in morphological decomposition.
URL:https://temp.linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-abeer-abbas/
LOCATION:Zoom
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